Javier Valdez Cárdenas

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With
the sudden death of CPJ Mexico Representative Mike O'Connor, 67, on Sunday,
Mexican journalists have lost one of their most formidable advocates. Mike will
be remembered as someone who was on the forefront of the struggle for press
freedom. His superb skills as an investigative journalist helped scores of reporters
across the country during a period marred by violence and censorship.

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Technology has democratized news publishing, rattling regimes that see their survival dependent on control of information. Video footage of repression from Burma to Syria to Egypt dramatically illustrates the benefits of Internet platforms and social media. Yet the Arab uprisings of 2011 also demonstrate the urgent need for providers and users of digital tools to understand the dangers of deploying them in repressive nations. As threats to online journalists grow in scope and frequency, they also underscore CPJ's mandate to be a truly global organization. More journalists need CPJ's help than ever before. By Sandra Mims Rowe

How does one negotiate the choice to stay and report potentially dangerous news, rather than take a less risky assignment, leave the profession, or flee the country? The recipients of the 2011 International Press Freedom Awards explain. By Kristin Jones

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A founder of Mexican news weekly Ríodoce, Javier
Valdez Cárdenas, traveled to New York in November to receive CPJ's
International Press Freedom Award at our annual benefit dinner. No sooner had
he returned to Mexico than Ríodoce's
website was thrown offline by a denial of service (DOS) attack, in which
multiple computers are used to flood a webserver with fake requests, slowing
down the site so that it cannot serve legitimate requests.

The Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria might seem like an
odd venue to stage a call for resistance. Nine hundred people in tuxedos and gowns. Champagne and
cocktails. Bill
Cunningham snapping photos. This combination is generally more likely to
coax a boozy nostalgia than foment a revolution. But the journalists honored last night at CPJ's
annual International Press Freedom Awards had a clear message to their
colleagues: Fight the power.

Last
night, hundreds of journalists and members of New York's press freedom
community met at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan for the Committee to
Protect Journalists' XXI annual International Press
Freedom Awards.
At the event--celebrating the extraordinary courage of five journalists from
across the globe--guests and award recipients unanimously expressed their
commitment to fighting impunity in the murders of journalists.